We are all trapped in modern fascism’s paranoid retcon engine, but it doesn’t work the way they want it to. open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe...
There's Only One Wrong Opinion About The Odyssey.
Petty tyrants and intellectual invertebrates are determined to wreck this rare and lovely moment of mass culture.
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Me and my sweetie are going to attempt to watch THE FOOTBALL. I am English. He is Norwegian. Neither of us know much about THE FOOTBALL and its various players. Please tell me what I need to know about the football NB If you lie I will believe you.
Me and my sweetie are going to attempt to watch THE FOOTBALL. I am English. He is Norwegian. Neither of us know much about THE FOOTBALL and its various players. Please tell me what I need to know about the football NB If you lie I will believe you.
Talk to @pennyred.bsky.social! She's resisting (and running a writing seminar inspiring others to resist as well, I'm taking it). She wrote a spectacular article: open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe...
AI Writes Like a Depressed Person If a Depressed Person Could Write.
And there are important reasons for that. On Art, AI and a few things that happened to me.
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To judge every member of a community on the basis of a crime committed by one member of that community is, of course, the very definition of prejudice.
"I really hope the British public learns the lesson of Donald Trump, when it comes to Nigel Farage." Congressman Brendan Boyle says the Reform leader is a "fraud", but is it too late for the UK? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/i-ho...
'I hope Brits realise Farage is a fraud before it's too late' | The News Agents
Congressman Brendan Boyle claims Donald Trump is corrupt on an "unbelievable" scale, and warns that the UK could face the same under a Nigel Farage leadership.
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To judge every member of a community on the basis of a crime committed by one member of that community is, of course, the very definition of prejudice.
A love letter to a phenomenal show. RIP #theboys, we shall not see its like again. reactormag.com/the-boys-was...
The Boys Was the Show This Era Needed, and the One It Deserved, Too - Reactor
Based off an early aughts shock-jock comic, The Boys rose to tackle the current political moment better than any other TV show.
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After the #Arsenal victory parade, the hundreds of thousands of fans have trashed our neighborhood. Streets full of rubbish, urine and vomit. Genuinely glad everyone had a good time- and now Arsenal FC needs to organise and pay for the cleanup. It’s the right thing to do.
A love letter to a phenomenal show. RIP #theboys, we shall not see its like again. reactormag.com/the-boys-was...
The Boys Was the Show This Era Needed, and the One It Deserved, Too - Reactor
Based off an early aughts shock-jock comic, The Boys rose to tackle the current political moment better than any other TV show.
reactormag.com
open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe... New essay on Lena Dunham, misogyny and millennial cognitive dissonance.
The World Owes Lena Dunham An Enormous, Unqualified Apology
And we all know why.
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Glenn Beck is quoting from the US Declaration of Independence and insisting that rights come from ‘the Creator’. He has made an enormous crowd of angry English nationalists go completely silent. This is hilarious.
interesting that anti trans activism has become a safe niche within the broader fascist movement for cis women. they are excluded from leadership positions, they know their place. but anti queer activism is outsourced to them.
Laurie Penny@pennyred.bsky.social · 3mo agoProud ‘Terf Island’ flags at the Unite The Right March.
The most Spirit of Britain thing to happen at the Unite the Kingdom rally is this one drunk South East Asian lady in a brown fleece, sitting on the steps of St Martin In the Fields, cheering everything, singing a song about Jesus and swigging from a two litre bottle of cider. Queen of our hearts.
Wow who could've seen this coming, except everyone paying attention...
Laurie Penny@pennyred.bsky.social · 3mo agoProud ‘Terf Island’ flags at the Unite The Right March.
This person at the nationalist Unite The Kingdom march is apparently dressed as a Knight Templar. I thought they were Darth Maul.
Tommy Robinson is now shilling for some ‘financial freedom’ and urging people to get their phones out and scan a QR code. I see two people doing it.
The Unite The Kingdom Rally continues weird. An American musician is now singing a song about Jesus and Charlie Kirk and people are actually leaving.
At the Unite the Right march, I just heard a speaker say that he proudly voted for Brexit…and almost nobody cheered.
At the far right Unite the Kingdom rally, The hugest crowd reaction, by far, is the booing every time someone says the name ‘Keir Starmer.’
‘As our President, Donald Trump, says…’ *dead silence* ‘Make England Great Again!’ *extremely weak ‘wahey!’* -Glenn Beck bombing at the Unite the Right march.
Glenn Beck is quoting from the US Declaration of Independence and insisting that rights come from ‘the Creator’. He has made an enormous crowd of angry English nationalists go completely silent. This is hilarious.
Glenn Beck is speaking at the Unite the Right march, and people are very confused. ‘I bring you greetings from the United States of America!’ …tumbleweed. A handful of people weakly clapping.
Me: trying to sleep My brain: what if Zack Polanski and Wes Streeting were secret lovers who started as bitter rivals. What if they broke up over political differences in a dramatic rainswept scene. What if Wes thought he could only impress Zack and win him back by becoming a party leader himself.